Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 12
“It is the most dreadful moment of my life: the whole world is leagued against me!”
Who acts: company · What happens: be, league · To what, where: dreadful moment, whole world
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 moment | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moment | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moment | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 dreadful | advmod |
| 6 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moment | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 leagued | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leagued | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 leagued | aux:pass |
| 16 | leagued | league | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 moment | parataxis |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 leagued | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 leagued | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | company | the dreadful moment | of my life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | league in a quote | present · passive | the whole world | against man | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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